Grief Can Pull Spouses Apart (but God Can Hold Them Together)

Few pains are deeper than the pain of losing a child. Yet, the pain can be made all the worse when the loss of a child leads to the loss of a marriage. While there appears to be no factual basis for the common statistic that 75–90% of marriages fail after the death of a child, it is obvious that a great loss can still put enormous strain on a relationship. It is likely that most of us have seen a marriage falter or even fail under the weight of such a heavy blow.In the early days of my family’s